Ezekiel Machogu, Cabinet Secretary for Education, has announced a list of policies that the government has approved for the nationwide implementation of Junior Secondary School education.
Grade 7 students who will be attending the new Junior Secondary School should report to their secondary institutions on Monday, Jan 30th, 2023.
CS Machogu stated during the release of the 2022 KCSE results that all school heads and Boards of Management (BoM) will be required to follow the guideline pending the comprehensive document by the Presidential Taskforce, which is anticipated in March 2023.
The guidelines are as follows:
1. The Board of Management (BoM) of a primary school that domiciles the Junior Secondary School constitutes a special Sub-Committee to spearhead the management of education and resources of the school.
The CS said the Head of the primary school that domiciles the Junior Secondary School would be the Secretary while a member of the Committee would serve as the chairperson.
2. All private Junior Secondary Schools to establish and operationalise Boards of Management, Boards of Directors or Boards of Trustees, in accordance with Section 52 (a) of the Basic Education Act (2013).
3. A public Junior Secondary School to be headed by the head teachers of the public primary school that domiciles it during the interim period of the transition ending December 30, 2023.
4. Registration of learners in the National Education Management Information System (NEMIS) to form the basis for the disbursement of funds to public Junior Secondary Schools.
CS Machogu urged school heads to ensure that all learners are captured by NEMIS during reporting, noting that any student not in the system would not be a beneficiary of the funds.
5. Textbooks and hard copies of the Grade 7 Curriculum Designs to be made available for all schools in the first week after reporting.
6. Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) to provide guidelines on the conduct of assessments at Junior Secondary Schools.
7. The infrastructure and resources of existing primary schools to be utilised by the respective domiciled Junior Secondary School in the interim one year of transition. This, he said would also apply to Special Needs Junior Secondary Schools.
8. The new curriculum developed by the Kenya Education Management Institute (KEMI) to apply during the induction of the school heads on institutional and instructional leadership.
Simultaneously, the CS announced that President Ruto’s government intends to invest Ksh.9.6 billion on user charges grants for the pilot class, a figure that will be increased to Ksh. 18 billion next year.
